[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 19 Dec 2019

Thu Dec 19 18:53:30 UTC 2019

Here is our meeting log:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-12-19-17.59.html

And here is our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday December 19th 18:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress).

== Goal of this meeting ==

Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Links to Useful documents ==

    * Our anti-censorship roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards
        * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets.
    * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam
    * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/-/boards
    * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component=%5eCircumvention&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=reviewer&order=priority
    * Projects from sponsors we are working on:
        * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30
        * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28

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== Announcements ==

    * We now have BridgeDB graphs on metrics!
        * https://metrics.torproject.org/bridgedb-transport.html
        * https://metrics.torproject.org/bridgedb-distributor.html

== Discussion ==

    * Sponsor 30: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30
        * UX - O3
            * A1 - Develop Tor user personas as a tool to understand users’ contexts and mental models.
            * A2 - Define which censorship scenarios we are going to address.
        * O2 en IFF :  https://pad.riseup.net/p/iff-bridgedb-usability-2020-keep
            * A3 - Identify which bridge selection and distribution methods are most used in targeted regions.

    * Anyone want to mentor a student developer during the summer? We have time to apply until early February.
    https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works/#timeline
    Ideas from last year: https://2019.www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Coding

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==

    *

== Updates ==

FORMAT!

Name:
    This week:
        - What you worked on this week.
    Next week:
        - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work).
    Help with:
         - Something you may need help with.

Hiro:
    Started restoring Twitter Responder.
        When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ?
    Next Week:
      - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781?
      - More with review of strings and website content and translation

phw:
  This week (2019-12-19):
        * Filed #32740 to build a feedback loop between OONI and BridgeDB.
        * Followed up on old email conversation with two university contacts, asking if they can run default bridges.
        * Reviewed #32712.
        * Worked with karsten to add BridgeDB to Tor Metrics in #32135.
        * Wrote patches for new default bridge at UMN (#32547); already blocked by GFW.
        * Started thinking about anti-censorship presentation in Austria.
        * Lots of work (but little progress) on porting BridgeDB to Python 3.
        * Attended meeting about TTP grant and read draft beforehand.
        * Provided a bit of feedback for #31011 (bridge authority should reject bridges with private addresses).
  Next week:
        *
  Help with:
        *

Gaba: ()
   Last week (Dec 16th):
            * s30 tracking
    This week (planned): AFK until January 9th. I'm on signal if needed

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-12-12
Last week:
    - merged snowflake test coverage improvements (#29259, #32300)
    - worked on a fix for gettor update script filling up disk space (#32712)
    - thought about how to tackle gitlab provider for gettor (#32711)
    - filed a gettor ticket for keeping track of provider reachability (#32716)
    - reviewed #32499 and #30716
    - ran some tests for #31971
    - continue snowflake health checks and looked at censorship in china (#32657)
    - continued looking into Windows issue (#31971)
    - worked on grant

This week:
    On vacation Dec 13 - Jan 1 (inclusive). Reachable by signal if it's urgent, will occassionally check email

Help with:
    - review of #32712

arlolra: 2019-12-12
    Last week:
        - merged #32499
    Next week:
        - read up on turbo tunnel
        - pick a new task (#31902, #31201, #19026, ?)
    Help with:
        -

dcf: 2019-12-19
    Last week:
        - posted a branch of meek with turbo tunnel - https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/21
        - wrote a summary of the upcoming research paper on censorship in Russia - https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/20
        - merged a Snowflake pull request re the proxy build - https://github.com/keroserene/snowflake/pull/46
    Next week:
        - decommission old broker (#32502)
        - turbo tunnel in Snowflake
    Help with:

cjb: 2019-12-19
  Next week:
    - was looking for a good first ticket and found https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31011, I'll give it
      it a try this week if that seems reasonable?
    - it looks like it has a companion ticket of https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31009 which just needs
      someone to take a patch from Trac and put it in a GitHub PR